A beautiful South African summer morning saw us arriving in Hoedspruit, a bit to the east of some very impressive mountains and canyons that warrant exploration on a future trip. The airport was great - disembarking onto the tarmac, which had gravel and grass very close to the plane. And a greenery lined walkway to … Continue reading Safari!
Since our trip to Australia, 2.5 months seems like a long time to be at home, so we’re making up for it with another trip very far away.We set off on a mild, dry and brown winter afternoon from Calgary - en route to South Africa with not only myself and Ellie, but my Mom … Continue reading The Mother City
The next stage of our trip brings us about an hour east of Cape Town to the Cape Winelands. We stopped for lunch at one of the first wine estates on the way, Vredenheim. In addition to high quality, inexpensive wines, they offered delicious estate made grape juice for kids in the tasting room, a … Continue reading Cape Winelands – mostly
We had one final morning of unsettled weather so we headed over to the Two Oceans Aquarium mid-morning on Boxing Day. A lot of other people had the same idea, too - the place was pretty packed! We got to walk through an interesting skeleton made completely out of scavenged plastic - bottles and jugs … Continue reading Pizza, Penguins, and a Party
This is a trip we've been looking forward to for what feels like a long time. After one short flight and two long ones, that didn't go as smoothly as our previous very long trip in April (Elinka now happily says about this weekend's journey: "I threw up on two planes! At the end and … Continue reading You’re going where?
Ellie's Adventures 